Have you tried something like this?
get 't1', 'r1', {COLUMN => 'c1', TIMERANGE => [ts1, ts2], VERSIONS => 1}
Where ts1 is a very old date and ts2 is today?
does it gives you the most recent one? Or the oldest one? I did not tried...
2014-05-13 7:59 GMT-04:00 john guthrie <[email protected]>:
> can't you just pick an old date - January 1, 1970 maybe?
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Hansi Klose <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi because of the Issue
> >
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10395
> >
> > i want to start my verification job with a starttime.
> >
> > To verify the whole time range i need the oldest timestamp in that table.
> >
> > I it possible with the hbase shell to get the key with the oldest
> > timestamp?
> >
> > So that i can use this timestamp as starttime in my verifyrep job.
> >
> > Regards Hansi
> >
>
